The Sacred Balance By David Suzuki Summary

The Prolonging of The Sacred Balance People may not realize it but instead of helping and protecting the environment, we are destroying it. As the human population increases, it seems like chances of helping the environment is decreasing. David Suzuki, author of "The Sacred Balance," emphasis how humans are more so laid back especially with new advanced technologies coming out every year. He mentions in the book, "We are the most numerous mammalian species on the planet, but unlike all the others, our ecological impact has been greatly amplified by technology.” Making sure that the environment is safe and productive is something that we all should really care about because we don’t know how the environment will look like later on.
I agree with David Suzuki about how all humans are unique and have different abilities to change the environment. However, humans tend to forget those abilities and neglect global sustainability. Some of the reasons why humans fail to contribute with global sustainability are burning fossil fuels, putting industrial wastes into the oceans, and etc. By practicing sustainable agriculture and fish, we can make the environment better. I am guilty of
I sleep with the television on almost every night because I hate sleeping in the dark. Sleeping with the television on wastes electricity, but I can't sleep without it on. My parents have told me numerous times to shut my television off if I am not watching it. Being the stubborn person that I am, I decide not to listen to them and continue sleeping with it on. This is something that I did not learn through social practice and it is definitely not a family tradition. I've been doing this since I was in middle school and even in this present, I still have to have some type of light on or else I won't be able to sleep. However, I am slowly trying to get rid of this habit because I don’t want it to affect me in the